iProphet recreates the unique sound of the classic Sequential Circuits Prophet VS synthesizer. The Prophet VS's rareness and classic digital sound make it a mainstay for those who can find them and a seemingly out or reach dream for those who cannot. The sound is purely classic crisp digital sound that easily stands on its own, but at the same time is the perfect compliment to the sound of analog synthesizers. It brings the crystaline vintage sound of four digital oscillators and allows sculpting them using a creamy & warm multimode filter. You can morph the sound of the 4 oscillators using the joystick or the vector mode and the vector envelope.

The iProphet is great for evolving pads, sharp leads and super punchy digital bass sounds and comes with over 500 presets created by some of todays best sound designers. You can also swap presets between iProphet and Arturia's Prophet V synthesizer which allows you to work on the iPAD and finish in the DAW of your choice.

iProphet supports Core MIDI, interapp-audio as well as Audiobus technologies for perfect integration.

iProphet is also a Tabletop Ready app. You can use it exclusively or along side your favorite Tabletop instruments.

For Tabletop 2.6 we've added the Tabletop-Ready polyphonic-beast-of-a-synthesizer, iProphet.We're also introducing a new device we call Interfx, an Inter-App Audio Effects Slot.We've squashed a lot of bugs and spent a ton of time testing, refining, and testing some more. We can't wait to hear what you'll do with this release! Stability and Performance is improved across the board.Thanks for the continued support and being an awesome community of music makers.

In 6 weeks it'll be the London Mini Maker Faire at
Elephant and Castle. You can get tickets and take a look at some of the
cool stuff that is likely to be there. I'm going to be there myself even
though it does clash with day two of the Music Production Expo.

I posted this before, but whilst listening to it again I kind of picked up on something that Gerhard said towards the end of the discussion (1:06:30 onwards), which makes me think that they're not really going to venture into the apps world as they still see it as a 'toy'. That was what I took from it, of course, you should make up your own mind though.

apeFilter is a sophisticated Equaliser, the DSP is based on the Biquad/Cascade filters, very fast! The graphical interaction provides a great tool to design an extremely precise and smooth frequency response by directly manipulating up to 36 Peaks Filters. The Spectral Grid compilers increase the complexity and coherence between the filters bandwidth space. You can create your pitch space by the way of four different criteria of construction by determining a pitches grid: Fibonacci, Harmonic, Geometric and Scalar. Use apeFilter for sculpt your sound through the embedded sampler or LIve from Audiobus or Inter-Audio-App Input. Among the FX chain, an amazing ClassicVerb is available.

Live looping iPad performance on two iPads plus a Korg Kaoss pad at B4B3L4B's Ephemeral Vessels event in Oakland's Babeland Gallery. CODAME artists showed off interactive installations while ANI made dance music on the middle floor.Video recorded from a new overhead cam and GoPro.

It's strange to think of a time when you could round up all the apps for a platform (like iOS) in a single post. But back in 2008 this is what I did. You can read the round up of the first batch of iPhone music making apps right here.

"The well known iOS app ThumbJam will be available on Samsung's Galaxy Note 4!Thanks to Samsung's new Professional Audio SDK, latency is much better than it used to be on Android devices so we decided to take the plunge.At first it will be available on the new Galaxy Note 4 and Note Edge, but later it should also be available on Note 3 and S5."

SpringSound is a physical-modeling audio synthesizer that produces sounds by simulating interactions and vibrations of a set of activators and masses connected to springs. The model offers detailed control of an array of features including: gravity, bouncing, fluid and static friction, mechanical limits, non-linear functions, and more.

SpringSound is provided with a very large set of sound presets that you can tweak and save.

It can be used as a sound generator or as an effect using its Audio-In feature, opening a new world of physical modeled effects. It is fully Audiobus® 2 and inter-app audio compatible, and manage state saving.

SpringSound can be controlled by a standard MIDI keyboard and directly from the iOS device screen.

SpringSound app is designed for optimum use with the Haken Continuum (www.hakenaudio.com) and integrate an IOS Continuum Remote (iPad only) allowing a very comprehensive and accurate remote control of the Continuum from your iPad (access to all parameters except programming the Eagan Matrix).

SpringSound has be designed to explore sounds domains you won’t be able to access with other synthesis technics. It expands your sonic palette with a new world of physical sounds. It is a rich musical instrument, a sophisticated sound-design tool and an entertaining sonic playground.SpringSound costs $2.99 on the app store:

Another reminder about this event because I'm really pleased to see something like this happening in London. So if you are going to be in London in mid-November then you should definitely check out Music Production Expo which is on the 14th and the 15th.

I'm planning to be there on both days so let me know if you'd like to meet up.

Buy your tickets and get this deal, it's pretty good and worth the price of the ticket and more.

Well in 2009 as everything was moving more and more towards iOS (as it was to become) I didn't expect to see 4Pockets announced Aurora for Windows Mobile. It was a complete surprise although not in any way unwelcome at all. I still have it on my Windows Mobile PDA. Read the original post on Aurora for Windows Mobile.

Well the day has come, and I was only talking about it just the other day. It's an awesome celebration of all things tape, and I love it. So if you're in the US, you need this site, and if you're in the EU/UK, you need this one.

Whatever you're doing to celebrate, have a great time, and if you've no idea what I'm talking about then click on one of the sites above and be enlightened.

Everyone has a different workflow and a different way of working and getting the sounds you want. So what's yours? How about sharing it and explaining why it works for you? Just get in touch (check the 'about' page) and tell me all about your workflow.

Just a regular reminder that if you want to help support the blogs and sites that make up the mobile music community please do consider buying your apps using the iTunes links you find on those sites (including this one of course). Thanks.

Another reminder about this event. If you're in London in mid-November then you should definitely check out Music Production Expo which is on the 14th and the 15th in London. Buy your tickets and get this deal, it's pretty good and worth the price of the ticket and more.

With Mr Matt Black showing NinJa Jamm and how to make a tune pack as part of the workshop I think this could be an excellent event, and really worth considering if your in London on the 27th, i.e. tomorrow.

So there's new stuff coming to Figure Addicted's Remix web app, in the form of a new shuffle feature. If you don't know the Figure Addicted community and web app (and if you're a Figure user) then you really should have a look, it's well worth it.

Light night I was speaking about the SoundLab project at ROLI's regular "Modern Music Industry" event, which I've been a big fan of since they started hosting these late last year. It was a really good crowd and I was in the company of some really excellent speakers too.

Anyway, don't take my word for it, here's what ROLI said about it in an email they sent today ...

"Last night's Modern Music Industry meet-up was a huge success, gathering over 50 people in our HQ to discuss a range of issues and opportunities effecting the industry. We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who came along, especially our four fantastic speakers, it was a truly inspiring evening. For those of you that couldn't make it, here's a short round-up of what happened.

Martin Klang spoke about 'The Owl', his open source, programmable effects pedal, and touched on the issues that start-up companies face when raising capital whilst trying to maintain creative control of their company.

Susanna Eastburn, CEO of Sound and Music, shared her thoughts about some of the social problems the music industry is facing, particularly in regards to gender and wealth equality.

Ashley Elsdon discussed his involvement in SoundLab, an initiative that is helping people with disabilities gain access to music.

Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner shared his experiences of 'using the technology that is available' to create his art, from his first 4 track tape recorded to today's digital tools.

We also had the team from SubPac, who let our guests demo their wearable bass system that transfers low frequencies directly to your body. Plus we had lots of great homemade food courtesy of Cafe ROLI and some impromptu Seaboard performances in our SoundHive. Our next Modern Music Industry meet-up is on the 12th November and we already have multi award winning composer and sound artist Nick Ryan, and Paul Bonham from the London Arts Council lined up to speak. You can register here."

So if you're in the area on the 12th, then sign up and I'll see you in November.

Thanks to EUMLab for giving away the codes, if you didn't get one you might want to take a look at their new app Drum Loops (Beats, Grooves and Rhythms) which has only been on the store for a couple of days now.

To celebrate the release of their latest app Drum Loops (Beats, Grooves and Rhythms), EUMLab have given us a bunch of codes for their Ukelele centric apps. So, at 7:30pm (BST) exactly I'll be posting up 3 codes for Uke101, at 8:30pm (BST) I'll be posting 3 codes for UkeHero, and at 9:30pm (BST) I'll be posting 3 codes for UkeTube.

Please remember that these codes will appear here on the blog first and not on twitter, so you'll have to watch the blog and not twitter to be able to grab one.

Updated with latest AudioBus library, which is required for iOS 8. AB now requires iOS 7+, so FunkBox does also. Devices using older iOS versions can still download and use FunkBox 3.4, which uses the older AB library and is iOS 5.1 - iOS 7 compatible.

Added Audiobus state save of current MIDI routing configuration. This can be turned off via the Settings app.

Added new roll option that will queue up the first hit so it always plays in time, instead of immediately playing it. This option can be turned on via the Settings app.

Added missing LM-2 tambourine and conga sounds to the sample library.

Fixed some minor bugs.

But the other good news is ..."We are still working on additional features for a future release, this update was primarily for iOS 8 and AudioBus compatibility. Thanks for your support!"

"The littleBit module version allows you to trigger it from any changing signal such as a a sequencer, button, or all manner of bits.These crunchy samples go great with the smooth sounds of the synth modules!Dr. Bleep and company think it would be a great addition to the littlebits library.All audio direct from what you see. The littleBits proto module at the end of the chain is used to give direct audio output."

I'm still somewhat confused or rather, intrigued as to why Korg would decide to introduce the Ableton export feature in Gadget and iKoassilator. Not that I'm complaining or that I think it's a bad idea at all. In fact I've been playing with it today and I really like it, but it does make me wonder if we'll see more integration of this kind from Korg, or if they'll do similar things with Cubase, Reason, Logic? Who knows.

It's also a good way for Ableton to enter the mobile space without actually entering the mobile space. What next?

It isn't anything you don't know already I expect. The rule of thumb is probably just keep waiting for now. The downside is that some apps are going iOS8 only, DM1 for iPad for one. I'm sure there'll be more apps that go that way too.

There's only another week left to get applications in to the Sound and Music incubator. You can find more information here, and remember that the incubator is only open until the 30th for applications.

I saw this at MTF London earlier this month and it does look like another interesting control mechanism for music as you can see here in this video. Of course here it's being used to control a laptop, but there's no reason it couldn't work with mobile at all.

Watching that video again and paying a little bit more attention this time round, I heard Ayah say that if your module gets manufactured then littleBit will give you 10% of the sales! That's amazing. That all makes sense now!

MIKU STOMP is a compact effect unit for guitar that lets Hatsune Miku sing according to your guitar playing. Just connect your guitar, and Hatsune Miku sings when you play. The world's most famous virtual singer software Hatsune Miku was developed by Crypton Future Media, which is transforming now into this effect unit utilizing the vocal synthesis technology eVocaloid™, a vocalizing effect based on Yamaha's next-generation NSX-1 sound engine. Using your guitar to control Hatsune Miku's vocals is an easy way to obtain a richly expressive performance that has a different character than when using step-recording or a keyboard.
* MIKU STOMP supports only single notes.

In case you missed it, bitLab, the new user generated hardware portal from littleBits, has opened. I think that this is really big news. Considering they are making this a democratic process. If the community votes up a module and over 1000 user vote for it then littleBits will make it. That's awesome.

I hear varying stories about iOS8, especially in the music space of course. Personally I haven't moved to iOS8 as yet, but if you have and it isn't working for you then you might want to have a read of this.

I'd love to see you at Modern Music Industry at ROLI tomorrow if you're around. I'll be speaking there (briefly) about the SoundLab project, but there's
plenty of other really interesting people speaking at ROLI's Modern Music Industry event.